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This may sound plausible at first, but if you've watched these kinds of things for a while there's an entirely plausible other explanation. Everyone wants to ha
by hannob 4y ago
This may sound plausible at first, but if you've watched these kinds of things for a while there's an entirely plausible other explanation. Everyone wants to have their little special case feature in, and nobody says "No!". Very few people actively try to avoid complexity and favor simplicity in standardization processes, even fewer did up until a few years ago.
"Avoiding complexity is good for security" is the thing that everyone will claim to agree if you say it, but hardly anyone follows in practice.
- Too 4y agoSprinkle in some security by obscurity; “If we just use our own variant of the algorithm , the hackers can not use common exploits!!” Scare of liability is another plausible reason. Nobody wants to be famous for picking the wrong default algorithm that exposed the whole internet. Easier to blame each individual user for choosing the wrong exponent or number of padding-bits.